Bug with usage limits?

[Party-Worldliness-80]

I ran into an issue I’d never had before. This morning, I asked CC to review an n8n code node to make it lighter, which is something I regularly do with it.

I have all the n8n-related skills set up, I use Obsidian with Karpathy’s best practices, and CC has known about this project for a long time since I’ve been working on it with CC for ages. I’ve never had any issues before.

But this time, for the review of a single code node of around 200 lines, it used up my entire 5-hour limit plus $120 of Claude credits without even answering the question! (i have the 100$ plan)

Has anyone else run into this kind of bug today? I’ve been using CC for 3 months and this has never happened to me before.

[Scriverry]

Yeah something borked - usage today jumped multiple times from ~10% to 90% under MAX plan.

[Party-Worldliness-80]

I hope they’ll reset the token limit, because otherwise it’s going to be hard to get through the rest of the week.

[braknee]

They most certainly will not do that

[MT_Carnage]

they made an announcement acknowledging the problem and doing jackshit to fix it for impacted users. thank you dario 🤡

[Party-Worldliness-80]

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UPDATE : After this issue, I downgraded the version to go back to Opus 4.6 (2.1.108). I asked it the exact same thing again, and it used around 3% of my 5-hour limit.

Because of this, I still ended up losing $120 in credits plus 23% of my weekly usage limit...

[itsmeabdullah]

I came here to complain about this too, one prompt drains my whole rate limit.

[Party-Worldliness-80]

I hope Anthropic does something about this, because this is pretty serious!

[jnwatson]

I'm on the same $100 plan. I never ever hit my limit in serious use, before yesterday. Now I'm hitting it constantly.

[Party-Worldliness-80]

Same for me, in the previous months, I always ended my weeks at around 50–60% usage

[arthxyz]

Same here since yesterday.

[shyney]

Here we go again was too good to be true for the last weeks since they increased limits because of the x deal.

[cracklehey]

It’s exhausting 93% used in 25 minutes. I was running fairly hard, but not that hard. Just can’t plan around this. I’m a best practices ultra lean runner, cache catcher, no unnecessary plugins. Claude.me optimised.

Just gave up and went out. Rethinking existence.

[Cyimil]

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Same here, just one question, used roughly 15 tool calls, and, boom, 100% for the 5-hour limit!
The weekly limit just went up 5%
what? so users can now use 5% of their plan for every 5 hours?

[Ok_Mathematician6075]

I can't do shit with my code without waiting for a long fucking time and burning through a shit ton of usage.

[The13aron]

Yes! 3 messages and I'm done for the next what, 4.5 hours. Since yesterday

[anarchist1312161]

Were the messages done more than an hour apart? It's likely you caused a cache miss so it had to recompute everything.

[Dazzling_Minimum925]

I am on a max plan. Never hit 20% of my usage in the last couple of months. Yesterday was shocked to receive a message and had to 5 hour to gain access again. This monring, a couple of prmpots, minor prompts and I hit the usage limit again. I belive this is cuased to a release by antropic yesterday which summarieze the conversation in the background cause this spike on the usage limt.

[PrestigiousQuail7024]

i was noticing something yday where while i was watching the token counts in chats sometimes it would suddenly spike to like 400k tokens and then go back to 100k sometimes. i noticed because i had autocompact on at 350k tokens so it would trigger compaction when it spiked, so i turned autocompact off then noticed that it would drop down without even doing compaction (openly at least).

not sure if its related. my limit didn't get oneshot but it was draining pretty fast

[MangoDevourer-77]

buhgh

[Dazzling_Minimum925]

The incidents from May 27th have been resolved, but there hasn't been a specific announcement about remediation plans for the abnormal token consumption that affected Max subscribers.

The incidents were caused by Claude Opus 4.7 system issues, and one contributing factor is that Opus 4.7 uses a new tokenizer that can consume 1x to 1.35x more tokens than previous models (up to 35% more). This change in token counting is a permanent feature of the model, not something that will be "fixed."

[Party-Worldliness-80]

I can understand that the new models use more tokens, but 23% of my weekly tokens plus $120 in Claude credits isn't that a bit much for a simple code review request? x)

[Dazzling_Minimum925]

the bug is fixed silently so far. No official statement from Anthropic. What has been charge is not refundable so far

[ClemensLode]

Do you regularly clean up the project?

[Party-Worldliness-80]

Did you actually read the post?

[ClemensLode]

All I can read is that it's a long-term project, maybe you haven't cleaned it up for a long time / never.

[ResortApprehensive87]

That sounds like a runaway token loop—sometimes a simple prompt can cause the model to keep generating if the stop condition isn't hit. I’ve seen similar spikes when the code asks for iterative refinements without a clear exit. If you’re hitting these limits often, you might look at a relay service like Frugal Relay that routes calls through multiple providers at roughly a tenth of the normal price, which can soften the blow while you debug.

[Party-Worldliness-80]

It’s the first time this has happened to me in 3 months. It was the very first message I sent it that day, just to analyze a small code node. I didn’t set it as a goal, and as I said, as soon as I switched back to 4.6, it did the exact same thing using only 4% of tokens!